Amusement device.



S. LEVI 6a W. F. SULTZER.

AMUSEMBNT DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 2s, 1912.

Patented Feb. 16, 1915.

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S. LEVI & W. P. SULTZER.

AMUSBMBNT DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED ,11111.26, 1912.

Patented Feb. 16, 1915.

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' rra STATES rarnnfr citric@ SAM LEVI, OF NEW YORK, AND WILLIAM F. SUY'LTZEB, OF NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK.

AMUSEMENT DEVICE.

Application filed April 26, 1912.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that we, SAM LEVI and )VIL- LmM F. SULTZER, citizens of the United States, residing at New York and New Rochelle, respectively, in the counties of New York and l/Vestchester, respectively, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Amusement Devices, of which the following is a specification.

Our present invention is an amusement device and resides in the means whereby we give a car a spiral ascent up a high tower to give the passengers a broad panoramic view of all the surrounding country and then give them a similar descent with or without an intermediate switchback or other ride.

In the drawings which show only one of the specific embodiments which our invention is adapted to take, Figure 1 is a 'front elevation of an amusement device within our invention; Fig. 2 is a vertical section on an enlarged scale of one of the towers and related parts of Fig. 1, the middle portion of the tower being broken away; Fig. 3 is a vertical section on a still larger scale of the upper portion of the tower in Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a horizontal sectional view on the line 4-4 in Fig. 3; Fig. 5 is a side elevation partly in vertical section looking at Fig. 4 in the direction of the arrow 5; and Fig. 6 isa horizontal sectional view on an enlarged scale on the line 6-6 in Fig. 2.

The particular form of our invention as shown in the drawings provides for two towers, a tower 1 for the spiral ascent of the car and a tower 2 for its spiral descent, and further provides for connecting tracks 3 supported on a 'framework 4 whereby the car 5, provided with an electric motor or otherwise, can travel from the top of the ascending tower 1 to the descending tower 2, and further provides tracks 6 by which the car can return from the base of the descending tower to the starting point at the p Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 16, 1915.

Serial No. 693,497.

surrounding each tower, and which, by

mechanism subsequently to be described, is raised and lowered and simultaneously rotated about the tower, and in so doing carries the car 5 with it in an ascending or descending spiral.

l0 (Fig. 6) is a bar pivoted at 11 to one side of the back of the car and adapted to drop down into a slot v'at the other side of said back to lock the car and prevent it from falling off the platform 9 as it is raised and lowered.

At the top of each tower 1 and 2 is a platform 12 which rotates carrying the platform 9 suspended from it, but which does not rise or lower. For this purpose, each platform-l2 has a sleeve 14 (Fig. 3) fixed to its under side which rotates on roller bearings 15 about a vertical axis on a fixed sleeve 16 mounted in the top of the tower l or 2. Each platform 12`is' steadied against tilting as it revolves by a ring 17 loosely surrounding the tower and supported from the platform by braces, 18. Roller bearings may be provided on this ring to bear against the cylindrical outside of the tower.

19 (Figs. 1 and 2) is a hoisting engine or equivalent device, one for each tower, to wind up, and vice versa to release, a cable 20 extending down around a sheave 21 and then vertically up through the center of the given tower to connect by a swivel joint 22 with the bottom of the weight 23 ysuspended from the lower ends of four cables 24 which it serves to keep taut. tend up' out of the top of the tower through the hollow in the sleeve 14"'(Fig. 3) and thence extend respectively over the sheaves 25 supported in suitable bearings on the platform 12 at right angles to each other, whence said cables extend downwardly and are permanently attached to the platform 9 and thereby suspend and support said platform 9 from the platform 12. The result is that when the hoisting engine 19 is operated, it raises and lowers the platform 9 relative to the platform 12.

We next provide further means as fol- These cables 24 explatform 12 at 'the same time that the lower i bevel gear 26 (Figs. V4: and 5) on the end of ered as describedvby the operation'of *the4 cable ;y f' Thisffurther' inea'ns1v Acomprises a the aXle 27= of one of the sheaves 25,said bevel gear being i-n mesh with another bevel gfea'rQon the upperend of the `vertical shaft 29 that projects down through a suit-y able bearing in the platform'12 and is providedbelow eodrletformwth e pinion 30 inffmeshwith a stationary gear "3l ysecured operated described to raise or. lower the @Speech-@Platform '9, .the pmlon 30' 1S `simult'aneoursly caused to rotate byreason ,of tlefootthet it is `seared to one of. the sheaves '25 and travelsl in a circular 'path platform l2 islikewise .causedto' rotate and elfect a""circular rack. The resultis that the in lso.' doing Alilrewise jcauses the suspended platform@ to rotate Wthit- The reeultof therisingl' or lowering motion vofthe platform'fandof its rotary motion beingan .ascending or descending spiral about, the

. .tow-er. of `which,-of course, the supported car rpartalesVWhen the car ha'sbeen raised A' inthi's' Amanner tothe gtopfof the tower l, the

lockingbar' IlQis released 4and the car'is propelled from4 the Platform 9 elorlsY the tracgk'' until lit reaches the .turn-table y.32. l

Here it is brought to rest and.reversed so i fheihe epeningiofoie uis directed Ytoma and:At'hereforecanl stradiile the descending tower@L as the vcar runs uponlthe platform 9. The car-'is then lockedvfand given its c spiralidescent tomthefbaseof the tower 2,

whence it travelsl on y'the track 6'to turntablefwhere it isagain reversed sof'that it lower platform from the upper, and means for emolteoeooey @teorie-,the errer Pletformf.

Q 'An amusementy device comprising in combination aI towerQan upper platform rotatably supported on the tower, a ring-like lowerrotatable platform freely surrounding the tower and hel'dwthereby against materiall swaying movement, means for raising and lowering the lower platform from the upper, andmeans for. simultaneously rotating the upper'platform.,y l v r Anamusement Vdevice comprising in i e combination a tower, an upperplatform robrooke:

platform, vmeans for raising and lowering the lower. platform from the upper, means 'for simultaneously r'otating' the upper "platform, and a U-shaped car that is removably located upon the lower platform in straddling position relative to the tower. Y v

{4.- *Anrv amusement device comprising 1n combination-a tower, an upper platform rotatably supported'on the tower, a ringlike lower platformlk freely surrounding"1 the l l H tower, means =for raising-and Vloweringv the concentrically to the outsidevof the towerl or 2.. Theresultis that as the lcable 20 is lowerplatform from the upper, means for simultaneously rotating the upper platform, and a Ufshaped car that is-fremovably lo` catedupoo the lover rletformfnetre'ddling position relative to the tower. 11,5,- An amusement,deveeoomprens the oombneton of Mover; e Platform-movable up and down said tower, and a l1-shapedcar. A,

that is removably located on platform in Sreddlins position relative to the tower! Y An* amusement devoe Comprising' the combination of a' tower, a platform movable or efidfdovo Seid tower', endl e 'Uehe'red oer vthe# eremovably looeted on Seid Plot,- form in etroddlng position el'etvetofthe tower, and a locking bar which Irelea'sably ooooeote-the lege of the. U of the oer et their fAn 'amusement device comprising' the Combination of e rover, e rletfoie, 'meeoo for moving said platform up and down the tower in a spiral course, and a U-shaped car `that is removablyv located on thebplat- L formfin. straddling position relative to ythe twee e I ,combinationy of a pair of towers connected 48. An amusement device comprising the above and'below tracks, a platform for ,t i

each tower movable up' and'dowii it, aU- shapedl'car' adapted to ibe run on each platform yin`straddling position relative to its tower,v and car-reversing means said QQ amusement device comprising the, combination of a hollow tower, an upper platform rotatably supported o nl the upper v edge 'ofx the tower, a ring-like lowerplatform freely surrounding the tower, a'hoistl ingv cable extending fthe tower from bei low, a .swivel jointonthe end of said cable within the tower, sheaves on theV upper platform, a plurality of cables leading fromsaid swivel joint up through the tower over the respective sheavesv and downwardlyon the outside of the' tower where said cables con? neet with and suspendtheflo'wer platform, a horizontally disposed circular rack .on the upper end ofthe tower, and a pinion engag-` ing said rack driven from one of the sheaves]L 10.-An amusement device ,comprisi'n'gthe combination of 'a hollow tower, an upper platform'rotat'ably supported'on the tower,

al lower platform, sheaves on the upper plat-v toreo, leeeee; folglreleog, end; levering( the iso lower platform comprising cables extending up through the tower over said sheaves and downwardly on the outside of the tower where they connect with the lower platform, and means operating between the upper platform and the tower for rotating said platform and driven by the operation of the sheaves.

11. In an amusement device, the combination with a tower, of a platform rotatable about and movable up and down on the tower, a car that is removably located on the platform in straddling relation to the tower, and means for permitting the placing of the car on the platform at one elevation and removing it at another.

12. In an amusement device, the combination with spaced towers, of a platform rotatable about and movable up and down on each tower, a car that is removable from one platform to the other and is adapted to be supported upon each in straddling relation to the tower thereof, and means for permitting the transfer of the car from one tower to the other at different elevations and for reversing the position of the car during such transfer.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

SAM LEVI. WILLIAM F. SULTZER. Witnesses:

E. W. SGHERR, Jr., A. C. MGDONNELL.

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